“- Jesse Stone: I'm a cop. I've been a cop for a long time. I'm good at it. I know how to do this. You don't.
- Jim Burns: Damn it, we can fire you.
- Jesse Stone: You can. But you can't tell me what to do.”

Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
John Dunsworth - Jim Burns

“- Commissioner Brumford: Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to introduce a most special American. Tonight, he is being honoured for his 1000th drug-dealer killed.
- Lt. Frank Drebin: Thank you. But, in all honesty, the last three I backed over with my car. Luckily, they turned out to be drug-dealers.”
Jacqueline Brookes - Commissioner Brumford
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Max Cherry: If you've got time, you think you can find out where he's staying?
- Winston: Cops can't locate him, huh?
- Max Cherry: They don't have your winning personality.”

Robert Forster - Max Cherry
Tommy "Tiny" Lister - Winston

“- Anne Osborne: Why don't you believe that the killers were cops?
- Remy McSwain: Because if they were cops, they would've stayed right here. And when we arrived, we would've found plants, guns, knives, all kinds of evidence that they resisted arrest. That's somethin' every cop in the world knows how to do.”

Ellen Barkin - Anne Osborne
Dennis Quaid - Remy McSwain

“- Maryann: How did you find me?
- Ray Hughes: I'm a detective. I find people all the time.”
Tracy Reed - Maryann
Gregory Hines - Ray Hughes